This week the big guns are in town with the Irish Road Race Championships taking place on our patch, with our own Suzanne White competing in the ladies race at 1pm on Saturday. We wish her the best of luck in this her first major master race and brings great honour to the club after […]
Dave Peelo sprints across the finish line. It was no pain no gain, on probably currently one of the best stretches of tarmac in Co.Wicklow, Altidore, with an average gradient of 12.4% over it’s 1.05km route, the venue for the Sorrento CC Hillclimb Championship, final event in the 2021 league. It certainly went down to […]
Huge congrats to Stephen Healy on his win in Mondello last week in his first season back racing, the first of many we hope. Click the link here to sticky bottle to see the results ,
On a misty night in the Wicklow hills, inform rider Aine MacCarthy, fresh from a podium place this week in the ladies series at Corkagh Park, took honours on the corncrake circuit. The racing was fast and furious but didn’t put off Aine who led in Eileen O’Sullivan for a great one, two for the […]
A canny early sprint by Danny McDermott gave him his first victory of the year leaving his mentor and fellow Cycle Safari’s stalwart Aidan Ryan in second place by a whisker last night on the Kilmacurragh finishing straight, with Aine MacCarthy for a fine third spot, in a vital race for some of the league […]
A great night for the future of the club with the inagural running of the Ladies 10 mile TT championship on the Danny O’Shea course from Jack Whites in Brittas Bay. Following a day of wild weather the gods were shining on the Sorrento riders with nearly dry roads and favourable winds on this rolling […]
Conal Higgins We lost our friend and clubmate Conal Higgins on June 16th 2021. A former Mountain Bike Secretary of the club, his membership of Sorrento Cycling Club dates back as far the very early 1980’s. We will miss Conal. In truth we have been missing his company on club activities in recent years as […]
SORRENTO CYCLING CLUB CLUB ROAD RACING CALENDAR 2021 ID Date Race Start Event Venue Circuit Laps Dist L1 Thursday 10 June 7:30 pm Prologue NewtownmtKennedy Gregory’s 1 5.8 km L2 Postponed 7:30 pm CP1 Filter Beds Tomriland 3 36 km L3 (C1) Thursday 24 June 7:30 pm 10 Mile TT Ch Cloghogue Beehive RAB 1 […]
Out of Wicklow: Chris Juul Jensen, the Danish rider who was born in Ireland and spent his childhood in Wicklow, on the attack in the finale of yesterday’s Giro stage 2 with Rein Taaramäe just behind him (Photo: Fabio Ferrari) Chris Juul Jensen, the Danish international who was born in Ireland and grew […]